To Have and To Hold: Courting Property in Law and Literature, 1837-1917

Beginning in the early nineteenth century, American jurisprudence grappled with the issue of marital property. States under the Anglo-American legal tradition of common law revised marital property allocations to allow wives to hold certain categories of property separate from their husbands. These...

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Main Author: Dallmann, Abigail Armstrong
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2011
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Online Access:http://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/444